Carboys are all a matter of personal preference-no real advantages/disadvantages to either (aside from the hand mauling which you received ). If you end up sticking with glass, do yourself the favor and get a . Makes moving a 60 lb. hunk of glass and precious brau a million times easier. (I believe they make them for Better Bottles too...not sure about the snap-on versions though.)

Just a note, those linked carboy handles are NOT meant to support the weight of a carboy + brew. For that you need a brewhauler or a milk crate.

lol actually that is gonna be one I brew soon. My last batch of red ale is almost gone. Time to restock. Sounds like I'm not the only clutz here. I'm a pretty big guy so usually the carboy was pretty easy to manhandle but I pulled a muscle in my right shoulder while putting away the solar cover for our pool earlier this week and was on a muscle relaxer. SWMBO says I should stick to video games when I'm on drugs from now on I really do think I'll shy away from the bigger glass carboys and just get a couple small ones. I'd go all plastic but I wanted to try and make some mead and I'd rather age that in glass. Funniest part of all this is this was my first batch I bottled without drinking any beer. I figured the muscle relaxer and alchohol would be a dangerous combo, little did I know the muscle relaxer would do it all by itself.